Brand-name medications come in proprietary injection pens with specific color coding: Ozempic: Red pen cap, doses labeled on pen Wegovy: Blue pen cap, doses labeled on pen Mounjaro: Purple pen cap, doses labeled on pen Zepbound: Teal pen cap, doses labeled on pen Trulicity: Green pen cap, single-dose pen (no dose selector) Victoza: Blue pen, multi-dose pen with dose selector Saxenda: Blue pen, multi-dose pen with dose selector Compounded medications typically come in glass vials with handwritten or printed labels, not prefilled pens
The individual brand breakouts are $25.8 billion for Mounjaro, $19.7 billion for Zepbound, $19.5 billion for Ozempic, and $15.3 billion for Wegovy
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A standard dose of 1000 mcg is 1 mL of a 1000 mcg/mL solution
these studies demonstrated a longer half-life than that observed in rats (53)